New Hybrid Drive

So, I’ve had a few issues with my Dell E6400, not that I don’t love it, I just wish it wouldn’t burn-up every time I connected an external monitor or two using the docking station (known issue, sent back to get fixed – the GPU would get so hot, the whole machine would lock up).  Anyways, I wasn’t particularly happy with the ~4min bootup time, so thought I’d try the new Seagate hybrid hard drive.

Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/laptop-hdd

 

Wow, boot time down to ~1min!! 

 

I’m typically a WD drive man, having gone through several samsungs and seagates in the past.  So, I’m really hoping this drive serves me well.

Finally found a decent Live Writer Plug-in for Code

After trying all the code snippit plug-ins for Windows Live Writer, I finally stumble across one that actually works.

Paste As Visual Studio Code v1.6

I thought the others did work at some point, but now they just come out all garbled (the Block Quote that WLW puts in is probably what’s doing it.)

Below is a sample of the lovely plug-in from Lavernock Enterprises.

Code Snippet

1. <Farm FarmAccount=“service.sp“
2. ConfigDB=“SharePoint2010_Config“
3. AdminContentDB=“SharePoint2010_Content_Admin“
4. DatabaseServer=“CON-DEV-ADSQL“
5. Passphrase=“SharePoint2010“
6. defaultAppPoolAccount=“service.sp“>
7. <CentralAdmin Port=“5555“ AuthProvider=“NTLM“>
8. <Servers>
9. <Server Name=“CON-DEV-SP10-1“ />
10. </Servers>
11. </CentralAdmin>
12. <Services>
14. </Services>
15. </Farm>

Windows Update – Don’t be restartin’

I’ve started to use my Hyper-V machine to host my development server which I remote in to.  It works great assuming I can actually remote to it (and not blocked by firewall policies).

What is really nice is I can leave it on all the time, so my windows are where I left them.  That is, until Windows Update graciously restarts it for me.

I don’t mind it automatically updating, but do you really have to restart?

This can be disabled through group policy though.

Edit your group policy and navigate to:

Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update

Modify “No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic update installations”